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HistoryMar 06, 2017 - 12:00 a.m.

K37337112 : Apache Tomcat vulnerability CVE-2017-6056

2017-03-0600:00:00
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72

AI Score

8.2

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.013

Percentile

86.4%

Security Advisory Description

It was discovered that a programming error in the processing of HTTPS requests in the Apache Tomcat servlet and JSP engine may result in denial of service via an infinite loop. The denial of service is easily achievable as a consequence of backporting a CVE-2016-6816 fix but not backporting the fix for Tomcat bug 57544. Distributions affected by this backporting issue include Debian (before 7.0.56-3+deb8u8 and 8.0.14-1+deb8u7 in jessie) and Ubuntu. (CVE-2017-6056)
Impact
There is no impact; F5 products are not affected by this vulnerability.